anti_spandex

So I got this bicycle today for free, it's a marin eldridge grade model. Frame says custom tubing, cr-mo, and has a san rafael badge on the front, also on the custum badge it says triple butted, and the frame say double butted stays, serial is C3SJA0101 anybody know what I got here? HELP>>> oh yeah got parts and rims with it also all in all great find! FREE!

illwafer

i have a 1992 marin eldridge grade. it is sweet. they used to make nice bikes.

RobbieTunes

+1, they made good road bikes.

A friend of mine had a nice Marin Verona, orange, with Columbus tubing and 3x9 105 STI, very nice ride.

I built a Marin Portofino, aluminum, square tubing, and it rode very nice....much better after I put cables and a chain on it...

auchencrow

I have a c. 95 Marin Pine Mountain - my one and only MTB and main winter ride. -I'll keep it forever!

RobbieTunes

Hate to chime in too much, but a Marin Muir Woods is one versatile machine. One of the best all-arounds I've seen.

robtown

I rebuilt this steel framed Marin Portafino recently. She's my size and was a great ride. Since I had so many other nice bikes and needed the cash for more projects I sold her. I can see how some of us have dozens of bikes.

r0ckh0und 

Marin made some nice MTBs in the early/mid 90s.............always wanted me a Pine Mountain

toytech

My wife rides a 2000 ish Marin Palisades, it has been a solid mountain bike.

LSUAnthony

I found a 2009n Marin Portofino for 300 bucks on craigslist, itll be my first road bike so trying to be careful in what i choose. The owner has only rode it 15 miles or so, pretty much brand new, I do triathlons and building myself up for a half-ironman, is this bike a good bike to get?

Let me know what you think

bigbossman 

They still do. I have a 2010 Marin Mount Vision 5.8 that is a real fun sled on the dirt.....

cycleheimer

Make sure there is nothing wrong with it. Check over the frame & forks, bottom bracket, wheels and brifters real close. That seems like a nice price if it is good as new.

Link for the specs & m.s.r.p. on it.... https://bikepedia.com/QuickBike/BikeS...fino&Type=bike

LSUAnthony

Ok great, thanks for the advice cycleheimer, I am really excited and think I am going to purchase this bike. Do you have any opinions on Marin Road Bikes in general? Likes? Dislikes?

RobbieTunes

I think yes. I built my Portofino with a new Mirage group a couple of years ago when the dollar/euro thing was favorable, 3x9, with wheels, etc. I sold it to a guy who was about to do his first triathlon, and since then, he's done a half-ironman on it, also. I think it's a good choice for a half-IM because it's a road bike and face it, 56miles is a good place for a road bike, regardless of how "tri" you want to be.

RobbieTunes

Good frames. I found it to be a good ride, got it from a former pro, and he always had nice stuff to sell me.

LSUAnthony

Dude thanks so much, I definately made up my mind. Now, I also dont think I could go 56 miles sitting up on a bike, do you think I should put aero bars on them?

neocaligatio

I have a late 90's Marin Sausalito hybrid that has been sat in the corner of the shed for a while, it's a lovely bike and I really should get it out again...

robatsu

I had a Pine Mountain rigid and my wife had an Eldridge Grade front suspension. The Pine Mountain was up the scale a little from the Eldgridge Grade, but the Eldridge Grade was no slouch at all. These are nice bikes for sure.